Gerald R. Ford Quotes

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I need art around me always.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.